This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial...

This article studies the synergy effect of entrepreneurship on China's industrial clusters. We propose an extension to Duranton and Overman's (2005) method which enables us to delimit industrial clusters in space. The empirical model is identified with historical measures of local entrepreneur...